Around 1,000 votes were received in total. There was fierce competition, with the other front runners being: Twenty One Points, Toilet, Kai Tangata – Alien Weaponry, Negative Space (France), My Friend Michael Jones and Cleaver.

Repugnant is a clever comedy exploring the premise of a lonely woman operating a business that offers gay conversion therapy for dogs. The film was made as part of The Outlook for Someday, a project supporting young New Zealand film-makers. It was produced by Arielle Sullivan, and stars Donough Rees as Grace and pug super-star Arnold Robinson as Fergis the dog.

The filmmakers will be receiving $1,500 cash, a copy of Final Draft writing software and an engraved Show Me Shorts badge. We hope this will help towards making their next project.